It's not a bad dream Ana D & Noora K. Ett rum - PHotoEspaña 2025 Off Festival.

It is not a bad dream. It is not a delirium or a distorted vision of reality. It is the present, latent, hurtful, irreversible.

With It's not a bad dream, the work of Ana D & Noora K immerses us in a visual experience that pulses between beauty and warning. The exhibition brings together the series Kaos and New Era, two bodies of work that dialogue with each other as an echo and mirror of our relationship -fractured and urgent- with nature.

In Kaos, the artists' gaze rests on collapse: synthetic materials, plastic textures, waste transformed into symbols. It is the metaphor of human excess, of the arrogance that imposes itself on the landscape and subdues it. Each image shows the beating under a contaminated surface, where the natural survives between the cracks of artifice.

New Era, on the other hand, explores the growing sense of disconnection and isolation experienced by individuals immersed in their own digital worlds. The series questions the distortion of our vision of the future, blurred by the overabundance of information and the growing presence of artificial intelligence. Ana D & Noora K reflect on whether this technological saturation will actually benefit human evolution, or whether it marks a deeper departure from our origins. Here, the natural world takes a back seat as we become increasingly attracted to and preoccupied with the unnatural, the synthetic, the virtual. New Age is not a utopian proposal, but a moment of critical reflection on the consequences of our detachment.

The exhibition is, above all, a wake-up call. To stop thinking that environmental damage is transitory, that the wound will close on its own. To remember that there will be no turning back if we cross certain thresholds. It's not a bad dream seeks to move and mobilize. To manifest that invisible footprint that we leave every day, with every gesture, with every omission.

From their visual poetics, Ana D & Noora K confront us with what is at stake: not only a landscape, but the very possibility of inhabiting it.

Sonia Gontán.